School crossing guard program takes step toward safer streets

Published 4:33 pm, Monday, March 3, 2014

Commodore Sloat Elementary School fifth-graders Ava Mear and Grace Loia-Lopez hold stop signs as Shawna Zimmer crosses with her sons, Ezra and Corbin. The students are learning how to serve as crossing guards, part of a pedestrian safety program led by police, school officials and Supervisor Norman Yee. less

Commodore Sloat Elementary School fifth-graders Ava Mear and Grace Loia-Lopez hold stop signs as Shawna Zimmer crosses with her sons, Ezra and Corbin. The students are learning how to serve as crossing guards, ... more

San Francisco police Officer Edie Lewis helps train Commodore Sloat Elementary School fifth-grader Andres De La Rosa as a crossing guard, part of a new pedestrian safety program at San Francisco public schools launched Monday. less

San Francisco police Officer Edie Lewis helps train Commodore Sloat Elementary School fifth-grader Andres De La Rosa as a crossing guard, part of a new pedestrian safety program at San Francisco public schools ... more

San Francisco officials are hoping to make city streets safer with a variety of new policies, including a school crossing guard program at Commodore Sloat Elementary School in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood. On Monday, Police Chief Greg Suhr, school Superintendent Richard Carranza and Supervisor Norman Yee - who secured funding for the pilot program at three schools in his district- came out to Commodore Sloat to kick off the crossing guard program. At the school, fifth-graders Ava Mear and Grace Loia-Lopez, above, hold stop signs as Shawna Zimmer crosses with her sons, Ezra and Corbin, and San Francisco police Officer Edie Lewis helps train fifth-grader Andres De La Rosa, right, as a crossing guard. Yee, who served as a crossing guard when he was growing up in San Francisco, said he hopes to see guards at schools across the city in the future.

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